Showing 1 - 10 of 4,422
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003378433
Adoption of health information and communication technologies ("HICT") has surged over the past two decades. We survey the medical and economic literature on HICT adoption and its impact on clinical outcomes, productivity and labor. We find that HICT improves clinical outcomes and lowers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012629438
Treatment intensity varies remarkably across physicians, yet the key drivers are not well understood. Meanwhile, the organization of healthcare is undergoing a secular transformation as physicians increasingly work in groups. This paper tests whether physicians' group affiliation matters for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012794640
We analyze whether receiving care from higher-priced hospitals leads to lower mortality. We overcome selection issues by using an instrumental variable approach which exploits that ambulance companies are quasi-randomly assigned to transport patients and have strong preferences for certain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938778
Ten percent of Black children in the U.S. spend time in foster care--twice the rate of white children. We estimate unwarranted disparities in foster care placement decisions, adjusting for differences in the potential for future maltreatment by leveraging the quasi-random assignment of cases to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322877
Children spend years in foster care, and there are concerns that bureaucratic hurdles contribute to unnecessarily long stays. In a novel approach to policy making, the Chilean government randomized the introduction of a program aimed at reducing these delays in order to evaluate its effects on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226171
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011619032
Birth order has been found to have a surprisingly large influence on educational attainment, yet much less is known about the role of birth order on delinquency outcomes such as disciplinary problems in school, juvenile delinquency, and adult crime: outcomes that carry significant negative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011602688
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011612603
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510647